Happy Sunday! In the spirit of Ramadan, today we make Umm Ali, a traditional Egyptian national dessert made out of leftover bread. The roots of this dish can be traced back to around the 12th century ...

Some people refuse to drink milk if it is one day past its expiration date, even when it looks and smells totally fine. They will also throw away a banana as soon as a brown spot appears on the peel.

Science has yet to figure out how to let us travel 4,500 years back in time to see how people lived, but at least you can taste what their bread was like. Seamus Blackley – a baking hobbyist who is ...

Egyptian Break Pudding recipe was submitted to the Cooking With Class Recipe Contest by Jeena Santos Ahmed. Congratulations. 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.2. Cut puff pastry sheets into 1-inch ...

Hawawshi is a beloved Egyptian street food featuring crispy pita bread stuffed with a flavorful, spiced meat mixture. The ...

The ancient Egyptian pots and jugs at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts only look empty. Video game designer Seamus Blackley thinks they’re full of dormant ...

The yeast microbes had been asleep for more than 5,000 years, buried deep in the pores of Egyptian ceramics, by the time Seamus Blackley came along and used them to bake a loaf of bread. An amateur ...

In a new book, former public media journalist Tony Ganzer explores the unexpected relationships between two of his passions. As he writes in the introduction, Kneading Journalism: Essays on Baking ...